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Singing of Psalms a Gospel-ordinance, or, A TreatiseSinging of Psalmes a Gospel-ordinance, or, A Treatise
Singing of Psalms a Gospel-ordinance, or, A Treatise wherein are handled these particulars 1. Touching the duty itself, 2. Touching the matter to be sung, 3. Touching the singers, 4. Touching the manner of singing / by John Cotton ...Singing of Psalmes a Gospel-ordinance, or, A Treatise wherein are handled these particulars 1. Touching the duty itselfe, 2. Touching the matter to be sung, 3. Touching the singers, 4. Touching the manner of singing / by John Cotton ...
London: printed for J.R., 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Some of these examples do allow even wicked men and Apostates to sing, though it be to upbraid and convince their wickedness. As that Song of Moses, Deut. 32. was appointed to be sung by the children of Israel, not only in Canaan, but in their State of Apostasy, and calamity, When evil should befall them in the latter days, Deut. 31.19.21, 22.29.
3. Some of these examples doe allow even wicked men and Apostates to sing, though it be to upbraide and convince their wickednesse. As that Song of Moses, Deut. 32. was appointed to be sung by the children of Israel, not onely in Canaan, but in their State of Apostasie, and calamitie, When evill should befall them in the latter dayes, Deut. 31.19.21, 22.29.
Object. 2. It is one of the peculiar privileges of the Church, that the public dispensation of the Word is committed only to them, Rom. 3.2. & 9.4. But singing for the matter of it, is nothing else, but the word, Col. 3.16. And the act of singing in public, is the public dispensation of it.
Object. 2. It is one of the peculiar priviledges of the Church, that the publique dispensation of the Word is committed onely to them, Rom. 3.2. & 9.4